This is a Guest Post Vlog by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. How does the Federal Reserve manipulate financial markets and your money? They do it by controlling risk premium spreads… The goal […]
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Thus is a Guest Post by Coinlist.me: Bitcoin has rocketed in value over the last 12 months, with its market cap at its peak reaching over $336 billion. For something that has no value according to many naysayers, it seems to be doing very well indeed! Like any tangible asset that’s actively traded, its value
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIGLj6T5TkU&feature=youtu.be Did Kylie Jenner kill Snapchat? Maybe… In the video above we cover what exactly is happening with Snapchat as a company
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The $SPY has transitioned to a range bound market with price between the 200 day SMA support and all time high resistance. The average trading range remains elevated at a 4.62 ATR. Volatile moves last week went in both directions. The MACD is in the process of a bearish cross under. With the loss of
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The top 10 causes of big losses in trading: Too stubborn to exit when proven wrong: You just refuse to take a loss, you think a loss is not real as long as you do not exit a trade. Too much ego to take a loss: You are on the wrong side of the market
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It is interesting when looking through the past few years of my trading activity that my profitability came from the longer term trades. The profits were in the trades that caught trends of weeks and months not a trade for a day or two. I have found the less I trade the more money I
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My rules of business: Build shit people want, never give up, avoid assholes, question assumptions, learn new ideas & always reward ambition — Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) November 13, 2016 I’m buying the dip. #Bitcoin nom nom nom 🤤 — Jason A. Williams🚀 (@GoingParabolic) February 26, 2021 The greatest wealth is created by being an early
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This is a guest post by Catalin. Founder of Ecommerce Platforms and Web App Meister. He’s a design enthusiast who loves matcha, and is uber passionate about bitcoin and blockchain technology. The crypto market has taken the world by storm. Everyone who is in the crypto world wants to visit the moon or buy a
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This is a book review of Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s new book: Skin in the Game. Skin in the Game is about the dynamics of the behaviors of people when their actions have downside risk along with the potential reward. Too many executives and politicians have all the upside reward from compensation and none of the risks of
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: and is used with permission. The Difference Between Great Traders and Good Traders: The Art of Totis Porcis The following is an excerpt from Barton Bigg’s book, Hedgehogging, where he relates a conversation with “Tim”, a successful macro investor (emphasis mine).
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Since the mini-crash in markets a few weeks ago, the S&P 500 has had a sharp V-bottom bottom rebound. But the question
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After the bounce off the $SPY 200 day SMA price has stabilized inside a trading range with $270 as a key support and $275 as resistance. Look for a break and close beyond these levels to confirm the next direction. The trading range has doubled in February with an ATR of 4.4. The moves have
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This is a Guest Post by Jayce Bryson, he spent the first 10 years of his career as a credit analyst and then portfolio manager for a super-regional bank where he managed a half billion dollar senior loan portfolio. He started Signalee to show new traders how to take advantage of volatility to consistently grind
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Here is a recent example of one of my trades. I was looking to trade a trend in the energy sector after it recovered from it’s long term downtrend. I was using $XLE as my signal chart but I traded $ERX for leverage. The chart had started to turn upwards after finding a bottom. My
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Do you understand the impact the Federal Reserve has on markets and your money? Most people don’t. And they’re left playing a
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here Another Lesson In Position Sizing From The Volpocalypse of 2018 and is reposted here with permission. Most famous fund failures have leverage at their core. That’s the true culprit for disaster — not the actual trade ideas. Bad position sizing kills. Long
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This is a guest post by Mike Semlitsch who is a trader and software developer with a proven track record of helping novice and intermediate traders succeed in trading the financial markets. Driven by a passion to help others, he takes pride in creating and providing the best trading systems and indicators possible. As the
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“There’s a million ways to make money in the markets, unfortunately they’re all very difficult to find.” – Jack Schwager Profitability in the financial markets is based on math not predictions and opinions. Here are the ten mathematical paths to profitability: Have a high winning percent where your winning trades and losing trades are similar
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The last two weeks has had very fast price action in both directions. Moves that use to take weeks now takes days. Last week was up on good volume comparative to normal daily volume. Last week $SPY recovered from one of the quickest corrections in history as price closed back over all key moving averages.
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“If trading (or any other job or endeavor) is a source of anxiety, fear, frustration, depression, or anger, something is wrong—even if you are successful in a conventional sense.” – Jack D. Schwager Anger is an emotion that is a great tool for protecting our boundaries and safety. Anger is the internal bodyguard that allows
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